"Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket." ― Charles Simic Topic(s): Poetry More From Charles Simic "Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them." More In Poetry "Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea."― John Updike "Money is a kind of poetry."― Wallace Stevens "I write all the time – I write poetry, I love to write."― Colin Quinn